Author: Sobel David
Publisher: Orion Society
Keywords: nature, literacy, series, vol, education, heart, ecophobia, reclaiming
Number of Pages: 45
Published: 1999-02-15
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0913098507
ISBN-13: 9780913098509

Beyond Ecophobia speaks to teachers, parents, and others interested in nurturing in children the ability to understand and care for nature. This expanded version of one of Orion Magazine’s most popular articles includes descriptions of developmentally appropriate environmental education activities and a list of related children’s books.

Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Keywords: witch
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $10.35
ISBN-10: 1858818834
ISBN-13: 9781858818832

At first, Jamie isn’t too worried about the bad dreams he’s been having since coming to his aunt’s house. Most people awoken in the middle of the night to find their house burning down would probably have nightmares, too. But instead of fire, he keeps dreaming of a "horrible, scary old woman," relentlessly coming after him for some awful, inexplicable purpose. Even though he’s come to Aunt Jane’s to recover from the fire’s aftermath, he doesn’t want to bother her or his cousin Alison with his silly fears. He can see that they are very busy with their v

Author: Cliff McNish
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Keywords: angel
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $10.19
ISBN-10: 1842556290
ISBN-13: 9781842556290

It’s been many years since fourteen-year-old Freya’s life was ruled by an obsession with angels - an obsession which destroyed her family. She has a burgeoning social life at school, and feels adjusted in the world. But then the angels return, and Freya discovers that she herself is a guardian angel. What makes matters worse is the arrival of the strange new girl, Stephanie, who craves for herself the angelic power that Freya resists. Learning to harness this difficult new friendship and her otherworldly abilities are complicated tasks, fraught with difficult decisions to make and

Author: Michelle Lovric
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Keywords: child, undrowned
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2010-02-04
List price: $10.39
ISBN-10: 1444000047
ISBN-13: 9781444000047

It’s the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who surviv

Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Keywords: tale, gatty
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-10-05
List price: $19.58
ISBN-10: 1842552732
ISBN-13: 9781842552735

Of all the characters in The Seeing Stone and At the Crossing-Places, it is Gatty the village girl - steadfast, forthright, innocent and wise -- who has won the hearts of readers. This is her story, written down at her behest by her childhood friend and hero, Arthur de Caldicot. Gatty’s dream is to follow Arthur to Jerusalem - though she has not even understood that Jerusalem is farther away than Ludlow, and across the sea. As he sets out on the crusade, Gatty, unknown to him, follows. Her extraordinary journey on foot across Europe and towards the east makes a marvellous mediev

Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Keywords: death, kiss
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $15.06
ISBN-10: 184255185X
ISBN-13: 9781842551851

Marcus Sedgwick’s tale of Venice and vampires is a captivating companion volume to the bestselling My Swordhand is Singing. Marko and Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time. They must uncover the mystery of what has happened both to Sorrel’s father, plagued by a strange madness that prevents him from sleeping, and to Marko’s father, a doctor, who has mysteriously gone missing after travelling to Venice to help his old friend. Years on from My Swordhand is Singing and Peter is still on the trail of the Shadow Queen. His search leads him to Venice, a city whose beauty disgui

Author: Gordon Snell
Publisher: Orion Children’s Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Keywords: water, thicker
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-08-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 184255056X
ISBN-13: 9781842550564

An outstanding collection of twelve coming-of-age stories by Irish and Irish-American writers. Maeve Binchy’s ’When Grania Grows Up’ pinpoints the moment a girl who believed in happy families loses her innocent faith in people; Marita Conlon-McKenna writes of a teenage romance that triggers hostilities between Catholics and Protestants; the title story by Shane Connaughton deals with macabre humour with a teenage boy rumoured to have committed a murder; and Helena Mullkerns’ ’Landlocked’ is about an Irish girl waitressing in Texas and beginning to underst